FullPage Capture vs Awesome Screenshot

Awesome Screenshot is a screen recorder with a cloud account that also takes screenshots, and its full page capture is decent: on a documentation site and on a modal dialog it produced the same file we did. We installed both side by side and kept going until the pages got harder. A spreadsheet-style grid, a page with a slow image, a page that scrolls sideways: that is where the files part ways, and where a tool built only for the whole page shows why it exists.

Updated September 28, 2026By the FullPage Capture team, the people who build the extension

A grid that draws itself, like a spreadsheet

Google Sheets and tools like it do not put their cells in the page; they paint the visible part of the grid on a canvas and scroll it with their own scrollbars. Awesome Screenshot photographed what was on screen, rows 2 to 27, and stopped, because as far as the page is concerned there is nothing below. FullPage Capture reads the grid itself and captures the rows that have something in them: 2 to 27, then 180 to 196, then 400 to 409, with the empty stretches folded away. This is our test page, built to work the way the real editor does, since a real spreadsheet would need someone's data in the picture.

A picture that was still loading

On developer.chrome.com the two files are the same height and, at a glance, the same page. Look at the “Extensions posts” cards and one of them is different: Awesome Screenshot caught the first card's image halfway through its reveal animation, a slice of the logo peeking out of a yellow block. FullPage Capture waited for the screen to settle before photographing it, so the card has its picture.

A page that scrolls sideways

A wide table, a timeline, a board with many columns: the page is wider than the window and scrolls left to right as well as down. Both extensions captured the width. Awesome Screenshot also captured 800 pixels of blank margin past the content, an overflow the page keeps but never shows, so its file is 4,800 pixels wide with an empty band down the right. FullPage Capture stopped where the content stops, at 4,000.

For balance: a modal dialog that scrolls over a dimmed page and a virtualised list, the kind that renders only the rows near the scroll position, came out the same from both. Neither trips Awesome Screenshot up.

What you get here that Awesome Screenshot does not have

FullPage Capture is a free whole page screenshot extension for Chrome and Edge, with no recorder and no cloud, which is where the rest of the differences come from.

• Complete captures of complex pages. Panels that scroll inside the page, sticky headers once, images that load on scroll, PDF files open in Chrome, very long pages in parts: handled by design. Awesome Screenshot's listing describes full page, selected area, visible part and desktop capture and does not claim any of these.
• No caps, no account, no cloud. Awesome Screenshot's free plan caps cloud storage at 100 screenshots and 20 recordings and wants an account to share. FullPage Capture has no limits and needs no account for the free version.
• Your captures stay yours. Its store declaration says it handles website content, which follows from storing captures for you. FullPage Capture declares no data collection and makes zero network requests.
• Real PDFs. One long page or Letter, Legal and A4 with page breaks between lines and clickable links, free; a searchable text layer in Pro. Awesome Screenshot's listing says “download screenshot as PDF” and no more.
• An editor built for screenshots: arrows, shapes, text, highlight, numbered badges, blur and pixelate, crop to exact pixel sizes, layers and undo, free to use. On Awesome Screenshot's pricing page the full annotation tools are on the paid plans.
• A quarter of the size (2.46 MiB against 9.15 MiB), because there is no recorder or cloud client inside.

Install FullPage Capture free and try it on this page. No account, no cloud, nothing uploaded.

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Where the capture itself is different

The grid, the loading image and the blank band are three faces of one difference in method. Awesome Screenshot photographs the page as it scrolls. FullPage Capture first works out what is on the page, what scrolls inside what and what has not finished loading, and captures after that. In practice:

• Apps that scroll inside a panel. Gmail, Notion, Trello, Jira, dashboards: FullPage Capture finds the element that really scrolls, captures the whole window once and then unrolls only that panel, so the result is the app, complete.
• Sticky headers, cookie bars and chat bubbles once. Photographed at the top, then hidden while the rest scrolls past, instead of repeating on every screen or covering the text.
• Images that load on scroll are waited for, screen by screen, so nothing comes out grey; a slow page can be given more time in the options.
• Embedded frames and PDF files. A document viewer inside the page is captured on its own, and a PDF opened in Chrome is rendered page by page into one image.
• Very long pages do not fail silently. Beyond Chrome's canvas limit the capture is saved as numbered parts, and the editor puts them back together whenever the whole still fits.
• Dark pages stay dark, on their own background, not on white.
• Retina and high-DPI captures keep the full pixel density, so text stays sharp when zoomed.

Side by side

What else is different

Awesome Screenshot records the tab, the desktop or your camera, in WebM or MP4, up to 4K on paid plans; captures a selected area or another application's window; saves to its own cloud and hands you a link; and sends captures to Jira, Slack, Trello, Asana and GitHub. FullPage Capture does not record and has no cloud of its own: you share the file, or with Pro save it to your own Google Drive and copy a view-by-link URL from there. Awesome Screenshot lists Firefox among its browsers; FullPage Capture is for Chromium browsers.

Questions

Try it next to Awesome Screenshot. The two do not interfere with each other, so capture the same page with both and keep the better file.

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